French aircraft manufacturer Dassault's Falcon 5X private jet is fantastic.
Debuted in 2013, the plane has room for 16 passengers. It's equipped with new Snecma Silvercrest engines that Dassault says make it more fuel efficient than competitors like Bombardier's Global 5000 (by 35%) and Gulfstream's G450 (by 30%).
The price? $45 million.
That puts it well below the $65 million Gulfstream G650, still the biggest, fastest, and overall best private jet money can buy. But Dassault strikes a blow with a cabin that is actually wider and taller (albeit shorter) than that of the G650.
And, for cool points more than practicality, it even has a skylight!
[An earlier version of this article was written by Alex Davies.]
The 5X is designed to handle especially deep descents, so it can land at more airports.
It can also land with 95% of its max takeoff weight. (That number for a Boeing 777-200 is about 82%.) That means that if the 5X needs to make an emergency landing just after takeoff, it does not have to dump or burn much fuel to do it safely.
With eight passengers on board (that's half capacity), the new jet can fly 5,200 nautical miles at Mach 0.8.
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